Bellingham Herald staff profile of Nikki Craft published during her Western Washington University appearances, days before the Whatcom County Jail letter. Covers her slide show "In Defense of Disobedience: Refusing to be Objectified and Exploited"; her conference presentation "Take Back Our Bodies: Women and Eating Disorders"; twenty-plus years of protest and 47 arrests to date; the Santa Cruz library action tearing up photographs of murdered women ("I hired a photographer to document this, so it took it out of the realm of malicious mischief and into the realm of conceptual art"); the Myth California protest's growth from four protestors to 1,500 over eight years until organizers moved the pageant to San Diego; her framing of pageants as "beauty obedience schools for women" linked to eating disorders, and of pornography's impact through the lynching comparison; and her statements: "My main goal is to change the conditions that women and children have to live in, in the patriarchy, and that's my life doing" and "Every form of resistance counts. I'm not saying every woman needs to do civil disobedience or get herself arrested; she can leave her battering husband." Part of the Nikki Craft Archival Project.

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